For years now, in the face of a no-limit hold’em tidal wave, the elite players of the world have spent their time quietly playing and propagating mixed games as the ultimate test of a poker player. In the Big Game at Bellagio, where Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein and Jennifer Harman are fixtures, they play as many as a dozen different games on a regular basis. In the face of a swollen main event at this year’s WSOP, a $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. (hold’em, Omaha hi-lo, razz, seven-card stud and seven-card stud hi-lo) event was introduced, regarded by those in the know as the ‘real’ World Championship and duly won by consummate professional Chip Reese.